Courses at Carver PA Corporation

Performance Management

This 3-day workshop will provide you with comprehensive, interactive, hands-on training to help you fully understand and apply performance management concepts including change and stress management learned.

Learning Objectives

Understand the leadership prerequisites of performance management
Why doesn’t performance management always work
Resistance to change and how to manage it
Goal setting and how to measure them
Correlation between performance, stress, and change management
Performance reviews
Creating a plan for moving forward
Developing your staff

Leadership & Collaboration

This 3-day workshop will provide you with comprehensive, interactive, hands-on training to help you fully understand and apply leadership concepts learned.

Learning Objectives

Understand the leadership prerequisites of leadership
Understand the basic concepts of leadership
Understand the seven leadership functions
Learn how to evaluate your level of leadership
Learn the strategic thinking and planning process
Understand the importance of IQ vs EQ
Define job risk
Understand the implications and benefits of empowerment

Coaching & Mentoring

This 3-day workshop will provide you with comprehensive, interactive, hands-on training to help you fully understand and apply coaching and mentoring process with the concepts learned.

Learning Objectives:

Provide direction to mentoring program participants
Establish program key performance indicators (KPIs)
Help organizational leaders understand why they should offer their support
Successful mentorship programs offer both structure and flexibility.
Structure provides participants a mentoring workflow to follow.
Help participants achieve productive learning that reaches defined mentorship goals.
Highlight the importance of flexibility essential to support varying individual mentoring needs across specific learning goals, preferences, and learning style.

Asset Management Essentials

Learning Objectives

Explain key plant asset management concepts.
Understand asset management phases
The role and need of maintenance in asset management
Selection of optimum maintenance tactics options for your plant
Selection and implementation of reactive and proactive maintenance tactics
Understand how maintenance planning improves plant performance
Understand and apply life cycle equipment performance to maintenance planning
Target and improve equipment maintainability and/or reliability.
Understand and apply asset maintenance strategies and performance management.
Consider the long term versus the short-term consequences of implementing an O&M job or task assuming many conditions.
Maintenance planning basics: planning, estimating and scheduling
Manage the importance of information linkages between all stakeholders of the process managing the quality, scope and cost.
Performance management & Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices + CMRP Exam + SMRP Membership

The Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices course is recommended for maintenance or reliability personnel that want to better understand reliability fundamentals and add some tools to enhance the reliability of their Assets. This course will also provide a better understanding of the SMRP Body of Knowledge and topics covered within the CMRP. Attendees will better understand the basis of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) while classical and risk-based approaches to corrective action decision making will also be discussed. Also, learn the importance of root cause analysis (RCA). This course can be a refresher for an experienced reliability practitioner or serve as an introduction to proactive maintenance for technical personnel.

MRBP 301 Course

CMRP Exam & SMRP Membership

Proctored CMRP Exam

Exam Eligibility
The CMRP is available to any maintenance and reliability professional, regardless of education background or work experience. Candidates interested in sitting for the CMRP must:
• Complete and submit the CMRP application
• Pay all applicable fees in advance
• Have not sat for the exam within the past six (6) months

Exam Only & SMRP Membership

Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices

Price $2095.00

Course Only - click here for the CMRP Exam and SMRP Membership

Lean Manufacturing & Operational Excellence

COURSE OVERVIEW:

This popular course will provide you with a broad understanding of the Lean Six Sigma improvement methodology, concepts, and language.
This course is targeting team members who need to develop a deep understanding of Lean Six Sigma: what it is, why it matters, what makes it successful, and how to deploy it in real life
This course provides an overview of Six Sigma concepts and language and an introduction to the Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) process improvement cycle. Also, lean concepts and tools.
This is an eighty hours of face-to-face interaction

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

The overall objective of this course is to provide you with a first step toward successful implementation of process improvement methods by developing familiarity with the basic concepts and language of Lean Six Sigma.
Students will have the chance to bring examples from their workplace for analysis and testing

COURSE OUTLINE:

Introduction to Operational Excellence
Lean or Six S
Six Sigma
Lean sigma defined
Lean enterprise
Lean Tools
Lean principles
Forms of waste
Value Stream Maps
Successes stories
Sigma level
Variability
Lean sigma frame works
Different belts
DMAIC – the improvement process
Design for six sigma
Define
Measure
Analyze
Improve
Control
Data types
Data gathering
Data presentation
Examples of Six Sigma projects
Change management
Operational excellence audit
Quizzes/ exams

Small Project Estimating, Scheduling and Cost Control

Learning Objectives:

Understand small project management concepts and risks.
Define scope of work to ensure project success (Control).
Explain the role of the job Coordinator (case study reinforced).
Apply small project cost and control elements.
Apply integration of construction Coordination and cost control systems.
Apply the elements and processes of estimating.
Consider the long term versus the short-term costs of implementing a job or task assuming many conditions.
Use the philosophy of estimating the net value to the company when choosing the resources to complete a job.
Better able to design and control job workflow and resource allocation.
Identify and control risks in small projects.
Apply basic project control methods to impact deliverables such as implementation costs, time and quality.

Understanding Work Control Management

A course designed to introduce management and support personnel about the basic concepts of WCM so that they are better able to support planners and schedulers in the performance of their duties.

*Group Training ONLY with a minimum of 8 attendees.

Advanced Work Control Management

Introductory Work Control Management

Problem Solving & Creative Thinking

Preventative Maintenance Optimization

To learn more about this training course please contact our training coordinator Tara Doidge at (780) 489-4444 or toll free 1 800 263-0165. Thank you.

Asset Management Essentials

Educate Your Organization

Asset Management Essentials 101

Don’t miss this opportunity to educate your Maintenance & Operations Leaders, Supervisors and Trades personnel on the fundamentals of Asset Management. This 1-day workshop will introduce students to the major concepts required to maintain facility systems and the benefits of a fully integrated asset management program with the objective of providing the best possible service to end users and the highest return on investment.

After completing this workshop participants attending will better understand:

1. Maintenance need and role and types of maintenance strategies.

2. Key Asset Management definitions.

a. Asset Management Process overview.

b. Asset Management Strategy Development.

c. Equipment criticality based philosophy.

3. Maintenance planning and scheduling directly impacting plant and equipment life cycle costs.

4. Maintenance tactics and options.

5. Equipment failures and their impact on your business.

6. The benefits and methods of quick root cause analysis.

7. Key concepts of Work Management Process.

8. Introduction to planning, estimating, and scheduling.

9. Benefits of creating the work package.

10. Application of process measurement methods to ensure continuous improvement.

Budgeting and Performance Management for Industrial Leadership

Suggested Attendees: This course is valuable for all personnel involved in the planning, development and execution of an industrial budget.
The goal of the course is to produce a greater understanding and appreciation for the need and power of highly effective budgeting and cost control measures.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop the student will have a greater understanding and be able to:

Explain and demonstrate what a budget is and its primary purpose.
Explain how the budgeting process and Performance Management are part of an overall Asset Performance Assurance program.
Explain the role of risk management in the budgeting process and how to better apply risk management.
Explain the different types of budgeting along with their advantages and disadvantages.
Explain the meaning of Budgetary Stewardship.
Explain how to develop a Performance Assurance program that includes the application of quality controlled business processes, including the budgeting process.

*Group Training ONLY with a minimum of 8 attendees.

Commissioning, Startup Planning & Practices

Suggested Attendees: experienced personnel seeking practical, top-quartile training for planning commissioning and plant start-up processes. This 3-day Carver workshop will provide you with comprehensive, theoretical, hands-on training along with practical case studies to reinforce key points.

Learning Objectives:

About the key stages of the commissioning process and how it fits into the overall project.
How to develop an overall commissioning and plant start-up strategy and detail plan.
How to deal with machinery and equipment specific commissioning issues.
How to manage issues dealing with the commissioning of typical Process Plant and Utilities Systems.
How to develop an overall commissioning management plan, resource plan and budget.
How to manage risks associated with commissioning.
How to identify safety and training requirements.
How to develop activity/progress charts.

CSU 303 is a Core Course for the: Commissioning Specialist Certificate Industrial Project Management Specialist Certificate

Introduction to Industrial Warehouse Concepts & Practices

Suggested Attendees: Inexperienced industry personnel seeking practical, top-quartile, training covering the many aspects of Industrial Inventory and Warehouse Management. This introductory, 2-day Carver workshop will provide you with comprehensive, detailed theoretical information combined with interactive, hands-on training to emphasize important concepts.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Identify various types of inventory
• Understand which cost reduction strategies may apply to your inventory
• Describe typical maintenance inventory behaviours
• Describe the typical workflows associated with supply chain
• Understand Activity Based Costing (ABC) and how it applies to inventory management
• Understand why O&M and warehouse parts philosophies and needs should have common performance measures
• Define and describe how technology correlates with inventory management
• Understand the physical requirements of a facility parts warehouse
• Define the Economic Order Quantity formula and its application
• Calculate the optimum minimum spare parts levels for maintenance spares.

IWM101 is a valuable introductory course for: IWM301 Advanced Industrial Warehouse Concepts & Practices

Introduction to Industrial Warehouse Concepts & Practices

Suggested Attendees: experienced industry personnel or students whom have completed IWM 101 and are seeking practical, top-quartile, hands-on training covering complex topics and solutions for Industrial Inventory and Warehouse Management. This 3-day advanced Carver workshop will provide you with comprehensive theory and hands-on training components that tie in a variety of factors and departments that impact decisions made by Warehouse Management.

Learning Objectives:

• Define and describe the various types of inventory
• Understand what cost reduction strategies may apply to your inventory
• Apply Risk Management philosophy to O&M inventory decisions
• Understand how equipment lifecycle performance dramatically affects maintenance and spare parts decisions
• Understand true costs and associated cost components of industrial inventory
• Describe typical maintenance inventory behaviours
• Describe the typical workflows associated with supply chain
• Understand Activity Based Costing (ABC) and how it applies to inventory management
• Understand why O&M and warehouse parts philosophies and needs should have common performance measures
• Define and describe how technology correlates with inventory management
• Understand the physical requirements of a facility parts warehouse
• Define the Economic Order Quantity formula and its application
• Calculate the optimum minimum spare parts levels for maintenance spares
• Use a PC model to evaluate critical spare parts decisions

Advanced CMMS Job Plan Building

Suggested Attendees: experienced industry personnel seeking practical, top-quartile, hands-on training relating to the theory and concepts for applying a risk-based approach to job plan building as well as the procedures and guidelines for building risk-based job plans. This 2-day advanced Carver workshop will provide students with interactive, hands-on training including practical and industry specific case studies.

Learning Objectives:

Explain basic concepts of a risk-based approach to job plan building.
Explain the job package steps.
Explain the role of QA/QC in job package development.
Define the job plan building process.
Define a standard job package format that meets your needs.
Define job risk.
Determine the appropriate level of job plan content.
Define the components and layout of an instruction set.

JPB 201 is a Core Course for the: Maintenance Planning Specialist Certificate

Advanced Estimating, Scheduling Concepts & Practices

Suggested Attendees: experienced maintenance and engineering personnel looking to increase quality and decrease costs by learning to manage resources in a more effective manner. This 3-day advanced Carver workshop will help you understand and apply important estimating and scheduling concepts through interactive discussions and practical, hands-on training.

Learning Objectives:

• Apply the elements and processes of estimating
• Consider long-term versus short-term costs of implementing an O&M job or task while assuming
the presence of numerous conditions
• Use the philosophy of estimating net value to the company when choosing the resources to complete
a job (what is the life cycle cost-benefit to the entire plant/mill?)
• Improve job work flow and resource allocation, including calculating standby time and overall
scheduling % efficiency
• Explain critical path and use a Gantt chart to trace out the critical path, i.e. define critical project
milestones, predecessor and successor relationships
• Identify the project risk points and explain how planning to manage or control the identified risk is
part of the overall project
• Manage the importance of information linkages between all stakeholders of the project
• Apply scheduling and control methods to impact deliverables such as implementation costs, time and quality
• Schedule, estimate and control a maintenance project by practicing with a case study

As we go through the workshop, think of how you could apply this material to your job and plant. The last page of your student workbook asks you to formally respond to this question. At the end of the workshop, you will be asked to summarize and discuss your response with the class.

Machine Health Management

Suggested Attendees: experienced industry personnel seeking practical, top-quartile, hands-on training related to the benefits and applications of a Machine Health Management program. This 3-day Carver workshop will provide a comprehensive, interactive overview and discussion on the importance of Machine Health Management and its effects on the overall success of the plant.

Learning Objectives:

Explain how to design and develop a Machine Health Management program.
Better understand what the role of MHM is in achieving operational excellence.
Explain key machine centered management concepts.
Learn how to facilitate the implementation of a Machine Centered health management Program that is focused on high value assets
More effectively identify and cost-justify different asset management strategies designed to meet strategic goals.
Understand what needs to be considered in the implementation of Machine Vibration Management Programs.
Understand what needs to be considered in the implementation of Machine Tribology Management Programs.
Have a bigger picture understanding into the requirements needed to achieve Operational Excellence.

Advanced Maintenance Planning & Asset Management

Learning Objectives:

Explain key Maintenance Planning and Asset Management concepts.
Apply best practice maintenance and reliability analysis processes to practically optimize equipment performance and reduce maintenance costs.
Cost-justify different maintenance planning programs such as Run-to-Fail,
On-Condition, and Predictive Maintenance.
Understand how maintenance planning directly impacts plant and equipment life cycle costs.
Understand and apply life cycle equipment performance to maintenance planning decisions and content.
Target and improve equipment maintainability and/or reliability.
Understand and apply asset maintenance strategies and performance management.
Consider the long term versus the short-term consequences of implementing an O&M job or task assuming many conditions.
Planning concepts, principles and practices
Integrated maintenance planning models
Risk Based Planning - Identify the project risk points and explain how planning to manage or control the identified risk is part of the overall process.
Manage the importance of information linkages between all stakeholders of the process managing the quality, scope and cost.

MP 301 is a Core Course for the:
Maintenance Planning Specialist Certificate

It is also a valuable successor course for:

MPE&S 201 Introductory Planning, Estimating & Scheduling Concepts

Introductory Planning, Estimating & Scheduling Concepts

Suggested Attendees: Inexperienced maintenance and engineering personnel interested in an introductory course which overviews operations training, accurate maintenance estimating, scheduling, and best practice maintenance planning. This 2-day, introductory Carver workshop will provide you with comprehensive, interactive, hands-on training to reinforce concepts learned.

Learning Objectives:

• Cost-justify different maintenance planning programs (i.e., Run to Fail, On Condition, and Predictive.)

• Apply a Value = Benefit - Cost strategy to justifying your maintenance activities.

• Understand how Maintenance Planning directly impacts Facility and Equipment Life Cycle costs.

• Target and improve equipment maintainability and/or reliability.

• Understand asset performance management.

• Understand Life Cycle maintenance planning.

• Apply the basic elements and process of estimating.

• Use the philosophy of estimating the net value to the company when choosing the resources to complete a job (what is the life cycle cost benefit to whole plant/mill?)

• Improve job workflow and resource allocation, including calculating standby time and overall scheduling% efficiency.

• Explain critical path and use a Gantt chart to trace out the critical path, define project critical milestones, predecessors and successor relationships.

• Identifying the project risk points and explains how planning to manage or control the identified risks is part of the overall project.

• Manage the importance of information linkages between all stakeholders of the project.

MPE&S 201 is a valuable introductory course for:
MP 301 Advanced Maintenance Planning & Asset Management
MES 302 Advanced Estimating, Scheduling Concepts & Practices

Advanced Planning, Estimating & Scheduling Concepts

Suggested Attendees: Experienced maintenance and engineering personnel interested in an advanced course which overviews operations training, accurate maintenance estimating, scheduling, and best practice maintenance planning. This 4-day advanced Carver workshop will provide you with comprehensive, interactive, hands-on training to help you fully understand and apply concepts learned.

Learning Objectives:

Understand planning elements of product scope (quality expectation deliverables) and project scope (WBS and completeness), short and long-term planning phases and integration with estimating (how much & how long?) and scheduling (how to accomplish the product and project scopes taking into consideration all constraints).
Application of Planning, Estimating and Scheduling as the enabling processes for implementation (execution and control) of identified work
Explain key Maintenance Planning and Asset Management concepts.
Apply best practice maintenance and reliability analysis processes to practically optimize equipment performance and reduce maintenance costs.
Understand how maintenance planning directly impacts plant and equipment life cycle costs.
Understand and apply life cycle equipment performance to maintenance planning decisions and content.
Consider the long term versus the short-term costs of implementing an O&M job or task assuming many conditions.
Apply the elements and processes of estimating the resources (cost, time, parts tools, labour etc.) required to complete the project and product scopes defined in planning
Estimating based on standard conditions and value of CMMS equipment maintenance history
Application of correction factors for job specific non-standard conditions
Use the philosophy of estimating the net value to the company when choosing the resources to complete a job (what is the life cycle cost benefit to whole plant/mill?)
Improve job workflow and resource allocation, including calculating standby time and overall scheduling % efficiency.
Explain work implementation network diagram critical path and use Gantt chart method to map the critical path. Defining project critical milestones, predecessors, and successor relationships.
Identify the project risk points and explain how planning to manage or control the identified risk is part of the overall project.
Manage the importance of information linkages between all stakeholders of the project.
Apply scheduling and control methods to impact deliverables such as implementation costs, time and quality.

MPE&S 402 is a valuable successor course to:
MPE&S 201 Introductory Planning, Estimating & Scheduling Concepts

Advanced Shutdown Management & Planning

Suggested Attendees: experienced Industry Personnel seeking hands-on, practical, top-quartile training for best practice planning and preparation for plant shutdowns and project turnarounds. This 3-day advanced Carver workshop will provide students with interactive, hands-on training with practical and industry specific case studies.

Learning Objectives:

The standard shutdown steps taken by industrial companies to plan, schedule and control a shutdown or turnaround.
Learn how to better integrate a service company's work planning with the planning of industrial asset operators.
How to better identify, manage, and control the major shutdown variables, constraints, and risks during the implementation phase.
How to build a stronger working partnership with the customer's Planning department by being better able to constructively contribute to the client's shutdown planning process and information.
How industrial operators typically develop and control the scope of a shutdown.
How industrial operators apply critical path and a flowchart or Gantt chart to trace out shutdown activities. For example, you will be able to define project-critical milestones, predecessor, and successor relationships.
How to proactively detect schedule delays and stay on schedule and on budget.

MPL 305 is a Core Course for the:

Maintenance Planning Specialist Certificate
Project Management Specialist Certificate

Introduction to MS Project Software Tool (Requires a laptop)

Suggested Attendees: Industry personnel seeking practical, hands-on, training on Microsoft’s Project Software Tool. In this 2-day introductory Carver workshop students will have the opportunity to apply knowledge learned by creating a basic project.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the basic purpose and operation of the software, and work with windows, Ribbon tabs and buttons, project views, and customize the Quick Access Toolbar.
Establish default project settings, create a new project, create and edit task lists details, establish dependencies by linking tasks, as well as review project details.
Add and assign resources to a project, work with project calendars, and enter projects costs, such as standard, variable, and fixed costs.
Apply task type settings, modify fixed tasks, set task constraints, and define and format the critical path.
Apply preset and custom contours, edit resource assignments, identify and resolve resource overallocation.
Format views and format the Gantt Chart.
Apply page setup options, create headers and footers, insert page breaks, preview and print project information, as well as view and edit reports.
Sort, filter and group views.
Save a baseline, set a status date, track the progress of a project, update tasks and the schedule , and compare a baseline and actual data.

MSP 311 is a Core Course for the:

Commissioning Specialist Certificate
Project Management Specialist Certificate

Advanced MS Project Software Tool (Requires a laptop)

Suggested Attendees: experienced industry personnel seeking applicable, hands-on, training using Microsoft Project Software tool. In this 2-day, advanced Carver workshop students will have the opportunity to take concepts learned and apply them to practical case studies. They will create a basic project and utilize the advanced functions of MS Project to fully appreciate how this software will allow them to take their projects to the next level.

Learning Objectives:

Customize Microsoft Project elements including tables, views, and reports.
Use sample templates, create custom templates, and use the Organizer to manage project elements.
Work with progress lines, Earned Value tables, and Visual Reports.
Use and create Import/ Export maps.
Create master projects, insert and work with subprojects, and create links to external tasks.
Assign tasks to resources from a resource pool, modify resource information, and update the resource pool.
Work with rollup task bars, hyperlinks, custom WBS codes, and macros.

MSP 250 is a valuable successor course of:
MSP 211 Introduction to MS Project Software Tool

Principles of Operational Excellence

Suggested Attendees: all facility Leadership and Management team members interested in taking their facility to the next level. This 3-day Carver workshop will focus on what needs to be in place prior to being able to achieve Operational Excellence. It addresses the critical elements needed to enable step change improvements in organizational and physical asset performance. Students will be provided theoretical knowledge with case studies that will enable them to better plan for and move towards achieving Operational Excellence upon completion of this course.

Learning Objectives:

Explain and demonstrate the roles of Asset management (AM) and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) to business
Explain how the budgeting process and Performance Management are part of an overall asset performance assurance program. Leading and lagging Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Explain the role of risk management in the budgeting process and how to better apply risk management.
Explain the different types of budgeting along with their advantages and disadvantages.
Budgetary Stewardship and its benefits
Explain how to develop a Performance Assurance program that includes the application of quality controlled business processes, including the budgeting process of budgeting along with their advantages and disadvantages.
Explain how to develop a Performance management & Assurance program that includes the application of quality controlled business processes, including the budgeting process.
Effective Integration of all business processes
Work Flow management
Management of Change applied to whole business

OE 301 is a Core Course for the: Operational Excellence Specialist Certificate
OE 301 is a Carver Specialist Option Course

Resource & Cost Management for Operations

Suggested Attendees: Both experienced industry personnel looking to take their career to the next level as well as management who want to take their facility to the next level. This 2-day advanced Carver workshop will provide students with top-quartile, interactive, training with practical and industry specific case studies. Students will recognize the importance of managing all aspects of their supply chain and work force to be most cost effective and achieve Operational Excellence.

Learning Objectives:

Understand small operational jobs or project management concepts and risks.
Define scope of work to ensure project success (control).
Explain the role of the Operations Job Coordinator (case study reinforced).
Apply small project cost and control elements.
Apply integration of Operations coordination and cost control systems.
Apply the elements and processes of estimating.
Consider the long term versus the short-term costs of implementing a job or task assuming many conditions.
Use the philosophy of estimating the net value to the company when choosing the resources to complete a job.
Better design and control job workflow and resource allocation.
Identify and control risks in small projects.
Apply basic operational project control methods to impact deliverables such as implementation costs, time and quality.
Be able to more accurately estimate job labour costs.

OE 202 is a Core Course for the: Operational Excellence Specialist Certificate

OE 202 is a Carver Specialist Option Course

Commissioning & Startup Planning for Operations

Suggested Attendees: all Operational and Production Design or Construction support personnel who will be involved in planning, developing and managing the commissioning of a facility after a shutdown, major modification or the construction of a new facility. This 2-day intermediate workshop will cover the commissioning process, the tools and forms required and the typical roles and responsibilities from an Operational perspective. It will also involve a case study that will focus on the roll of Operational Readiness Reviews (ORR), Pre-Safety Start-Up (PSSR) and Start-Up management in the overall Commissioning project to provide a safe, on time and on budget start-up.

Pre-requisites: Industrial experience

Learning Objectives:

The key stages of the commissioning process and how it fits into the overall project.
How to develop an overall commissioning and plant start-up strategy and plan.
How to deal with machinery and equipment specific commissioning issues.
How to manage issues dealing with the commissioning of typical Process Plant and Utilities Systems.
How to develop an overall staged commissioning management plan, resource plan and budget.
How to manage risks associated with commissioning.
How to identify safety and training requirements.
How to develop CSU activity/progress charts.
Pre-Startup Safety Review and Readiness for Operations

OE203 is a Core Course for the: Operational Excellence Specialist Certificate
OE203 is a Carver Specialist Option Course

Advanced Machine Management for Operations

Suggested Attendees: both experienced industry personnel looking to take their career to the next level as well as management who want to take their facility to the next level. This 2-day advanced Carver workshop will provide students with top-quartile, interactive, training with practical and industry specific case studies in order to understand the importance of Machine Management in achieving overall Operational Excellence.

Learning Objectives:

How to address deficiencies in current machine health monitoring processes
How to evaluate all aspects of the current strategies and eliminate any non-value-added work and cost justify the correct mitigation strategies
How to manage machine health data and understand various data types
The basic loading/stress phases associated with machine health
The machine health failure types
Both operational and maintenance strategies and how they interact
The machine health strategies over the life cycle of equipment
That machine health monitoring will provide a clear understanding of the maintenance program requirements

OE 204 is a Core Course for the:

Operational Excellence Specialist Certificate
A Carver Specialist Option Course

Implementing Predictive Maintenance Programs

Suggested Attendees: experienced industry personnel seeking practical, hands-on training for measuring the condition of industrial equipment to assess future failures and apply preventive measures required to avoid the consequences of each failure. This 3-day advanced Carver workshop will provide students with top-quartile, interactive training along with practical and industry specific case studies that give students the opportunity to apply the theoretical information learned.

Learning Objectives:

• A 3-day workshop covering many aspects of Predictive Maintenance, upon completion of this workshop, you will:

• Learn and practice how to predict system performance.

• Learn the definition and the basic concepts of Predictive Maintenance (PdM).

• Learn the benefits of applying Predictive Maintenance at your facility.

• Learn how to incorporate Predictive Maintenance into your maintenance strategy and Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).

• Learn how performing Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA) are key to implementing a successful Predictive Maintenance program.

• Discuss commonly applied Predictive Maintenance strategies including vibration analysis and fluid monitoring.

• Learn of common types of monitors and their applications.

• Do case studies on different tooling and technologies available to implement Predictive Maintenance strategies.

PdM 305 is a Core Course for the: Reliability Specialist Certificate

Project Management Principles & Concepts

Valuable course for: experienced personnel seeking to boost their project management skills through practical, top-quartile, training on the theories and concepts of project management. This 2-day advanced Carver workshop will provide you with comprehensive, interactive training along with factual industry case studies.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Understand the concept and objectives of project management
• Understand how project management directly impacts project costs and deliverables such as time and quality
• Understand the integration of project planning and control systems
• Apply various project management tactics
• Define scope of work to ensure success
• Recognize the role of Project Leaders, in terms of value, to a project
• Manage information linkages between sections of the project departments
• Define the major variables considered in industrial O&M project management
• Understand critical paths of a project plan
• Understand and utilize Gantt charts

PMG 201 is a valuable successor course of:
MSP 250 Advanced MS Project Software Tool

Root Cause Failure Analysis & Maintenance

Suggested Attendees: experienced industry personnel seeking top-quartile, hands-on, training to fully understand the concepts and theories of Root Cause Failure Analysis. This 2-day advanced Carver workshop will provide students with a practical interactive approach enabling them to see firsthand the value of monitoring, identifying, documenting and implementing improvements for equipment, processes or human failures (RCM facilitation).

Learning Objectives:

1. Define and implement Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCA)

2. Learn and practice how to implement an four-step RCA process

· Data Collection and Analysis

· Apply 1 of 8 RCA Methods

· Root Cause Identification

· Recommendation Generation and Implementation

3. Apply Root Cause Analysis Methodology such as:

· 8D’s

· Casual Factor Charting

· Barrier Analysis

· Cause-and-Effect Diagram (Fishbone)

· Cause-and-Effect Matrix

· 5 Whys

· A3

· APOLLO

4. Learn difference between RCA and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

5. Learn how to implement the FMEA process

6. Practice auditing FMEA using the quality objectives

7. Practice analyzing a failure and determining root causes

8. 8 Steps of RCA

RCA 303 is a Core Course for the: Reliability Specialist Certificate & Commissioning Specialist Certificate
RCA 303 is a valuable course when taken with TSPS 201 Process Troubleshooting & Problem Solving

Reliability Centered Maintenance

Suggested Attendees: experienced Maintenance, Operations and Engineering personnel considering or implementing RCM and seeking comprehensive, interactive hands-on training on various reliability centered maintenance implementation steps and common strategies. This 3-day advanced Carver workshop will provide you with theoretical, interactive training along with practical case studies to reinforce concepts learned.

Learning Objectives:

Explain RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance)
State RCM’s basic components
Explain the major differences in the Traditional vs. Applied RCM approaches
Describe how FMECA fits into the RCM process
Define the seven steps of the Traditional RCM process
Define the eight steps of the Applied RCM process
Applying traditional or fast track RCM concepts.

RCM 301 is a Core Course for the: Reliability Specialist Certificate

Basic Reliability Centered Maintenance

Process Troubleshooting & Problem Solving

Suggested Attendees: experienced industry personnel seeking top-quartile, hands-on, training to maximize production up time, manage information, risk and time. This 2-day advanced Carver workshop emphasizes and promotes the importance of teamwork between operations and maintenance departments and will provide students with theoretical, interactive training along with practical and industry specific case studies showing common problems and troubleshooting techniques.

Learning Objectives:

Perform Trouble Shooting in a more systematic and consistent method.
Reduce average trouble shooting time and therefore the average downtime with a proven Trouble Shooting and Problem Solving method.
Follow 6- steps of Problem Solving.
Process factual information more efficiently.
Define the problem clearly and objectively.
With your RCA team focus on the root cause.
Generate possible solutions.
Reduce assumptions when trouble shooting.
Use selection criteria and Decision matrix.
Create equipment specific troubleshooting guides.

TSPS 201 is a Core Course for the: Commissioning Specialist Certificate

13 Week Planning Horizon

Vibration Monitoring and Analysis

Suggested Attendees: experience personnel wanting to learn the basics of Vibration Monitoring and Analysis technology, how to interpret vibration data and how to best apply it in the field. This course is also ideal for personnel who are or will be, responsible for the design, planning, maintenance or operations of condition monitoring or machine health management systems. This 2-day advanced course will provide students with theoretical knowledge, as well as practical experience through case studies.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Understand how to select vibration analysis technology and field implementation techniques
• Understand when to apply vibration analysis and what it tells you about machine performance
• Understand the basics of vibration monitoring and analysis programs
• Interpret and trouble-shoot basic vibration readings for rotating and piping equipment,
including how to interpret an equipment vibration severity chart
• Develop, cost justify and integrate Vibration Monitoring programs into your Asset Management strategies
• Compare Ultrasonic Condition monitoring technology to Vibration Monitoring technology

*Group Training ONLY with a minimum of 8 attendees.

Small Project Scheduling and Estimating Skills

Valuable course for: all personnel involved in the planning, field coordination, logistics and management of small maintenance and construction projects. This 2-day introductory Carver workshop is designed to compare and contrast small and large projects as they often require different field control techniques and tools. Students will gain practical knowledge to better achieve project goals through theoretical information and practical, hands-on, learning through exercises and case-studies.

Learning Objectives

• Apply basic small project control methods to minimize variances and ensure project is completed safely,
on-time and on-budget.
• Understand small project management concepts and risks
• Identify and control risks in small projects
• Define scope of work to ensure project success (Control)
• Define and understand the role of the job Coordinator (case study reinforced).
• Apply small project cost and schedule control elements
• Apply integration of construction coordination and cost control systems
• Apply elements and processes of estimating
• Consider long-term versus short-term costs of implementing a job or task assuming many conditions
• Design and control job workflow and resource allocation